Nik Chanda
Georgetown,TX
Summary
Accomplished and results-driven technology leader with extensive experience driving innovative solutions and managing the full software development lifecycle within top-tier organizations. Proven track record of leading high-performing teams through complex projects, delivering high-quality, scalable products on time and within budget. Expert in crafting creative and profitable solutions, utilizing exceptional communication skills, lean and agile methodologies, and emerging technologies. Skilled in guiding teams towards continuous improvement, fostering a culture of learning and growth, and steering mentorship initiatives to enhance skills and capabilities.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
Technical Certifications
Work History
Managing Partner | Emerging Technologies Consultant
Red Poppy Ventures
Austin , TX
2023.01 - Current
- Deliver impactful business and technology consulting services with a focus on exploring new and emerging technologies to empower individuals, automate processes, and enhance products
- Lead transition of legacy native applications to a shared react native codebase to streamline deployment of Android and iOS applications and features
- Engineer a streamlined system for interviewing non-profit business entrepreneurs, guiding in formation and submission of 501(c)(3) applications, board structure, and corporate governance
- Accomplished a substantial 67% reduction in project expenses and an 80% decrease in delivery time by designing and developing a groundbreaking generative AI copywriting solution
- Enabled production of multi-page websites from a 60-minute phone interview, resulting in a remarkable 67% reduction in copywriting expenses and an 80% decrease in time to delivery
- Facilitated creation of remodel renderings from as-built images, leading to a substantial 60% reduction in proposal time
- Achieved a notable 300% reduction in native builds by implementing cloud-based microservices into native applications.
CTO | Principal Software Engineer
SYNQY Corporation
San Francisco , CA
2014.01 - 2023.01
- Innovated and designed a patented retail media platform, elevating on-site revenue for top-tier retailers in e-commerce and generating new revenue streams
- Directed development of a suite of full-stack progressive web applications in React and Restful/GraphQL APIs
- Established docker packaging and reusable component standards, leading to significant component reuse and high-quality unit test implementation
- Trained and evaluated social graph and text embedding machine learning models for product identification and classification
- Developed a revised Scrum/Agile Project Management methodology, focusing on a continuous improvement approach to 'Definition of Done.' Authored and implemented a 'zero-trust' corporate information security plan, meeting SOC-2 compliance standards
- Planned and managed an analytic Data Lake in Python and several Big Data Databases
- Conducted regular engineering one-on-one mentoring sessions, cross-functional team meetings, board presentations, investor showcases, and customer sales demonstrations
- Collaborated with customer teams, optimizing sales and implementation plans, resulting in 100+ successful enterprise integrations completed faster than 90% of parallel projects
- Minimized monthly cloud costs by 85% without compromising performance or fault tolerance and improved scalability and performance by over 200%
- Accomplished a remarkable 300% improvement in software delivery cycle from customer request to product feature
- Reduced developer overhead up to 20% by unlocked static code validation
- Achieved an exceptional 10x+ return on ad spend for product advertisers.
Technical Cofounder | Product Engineer
Sequoia Technologies IMS
San Francisco , CA
2010.01 - 2014.01
- Established and assembled effective engineering and QA teams from ground up, defining team goals and fostering a culture of success
- Evaluated engineering skills and experience of available candidates as well as selected frameworks and infrastructure to align optimally with available resources and talent
- Enhanced cross-team collaboration and fostered collaborative support and developer trust by architecting an Agile Sprint/Scrum methodology
- Led a technology transition from an acquired legacy monolithic codebase to a component-based multi-tenant content management system
- Developed tooling to automate bid management of 1,500+ internet marketing campaigns, enabling real-time adjustments based on competitive pricing, remaining budget, and weather forecasting
- Innovated a syndication process and technology, ultimately leading to successful sale of company to Surefire Local and becoming core asset of SYNQY Corporation
- Spearheaded software development to manage 1,500+ internet marketing campaigns as well as enhanced ad spend effectiveness by an impressive 120%
- Executed migration from colocation environment to AWS cloud, facilitating hosting of 3,500+ local B2C companies
- Launched second office location to achieve a remarkable 150% capacity increase with only a 40% rise in expenses.
VP Professional Services, Software Engineer
Tachometry Corporation
Walnut Creek , CA
Digital Marketing Manager, Web Developer
Robert Anthony Strategic Marketing and Design
Walnut Creek , CA
Education
Post Graduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning -
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts, Communication Studies -
California State University
Skills
- Leadership and Team Management
- Project Lifecycle Management
- Machine Learning and AI
- Full-Stack Technical Proficiency
- Strategic Vision and Innovation
- Agile Product Methodologies
- Cloud Services and Architecture
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
Patents
Embedded Retail Media Platform | 8 Software Utility Patents (2014 – 2022)
US-20140164098-A1, US-20140201010-A1, US-20140164148-A1, US-20180211289-A1,
US-20200258130-A1, US-20200258131-A1, US-20210073870-A1, US-20220067794-A1
Technical Proficiencies
Full-Stack JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, React/Preact, React Native, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Git, Serverless, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, Supervised and Unsupervised Techniques, OpenAI, LangChain, Vector Database
Certification
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate (Jul 2023), Amazon Web Services (SAA-03)
- Certified Scrum Master (May 2023), Scrum Alliance (ID: 001520268)
- 360 Certified Manager (Jan 2021), Manager 360, CEO Tightrope
- Capital Access Entrepreneur (Jun 2014), e2i Academy, Keiretsu Forum Academy
Volunteer and Board Service
- Mission 4031, Inc., Board of Directors, 2021 – Present
- Advanced Fuel Dynamics, Inc., Board of Directors, 2014 – Present
References
References available upon request.
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